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This concept video is connecting forward at the top to extension in the

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follow-through. So when we're looking at the pivot and looking at how the spine

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moves there's some complicated components. In order to keep a centered pivot

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the

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spine blends a negative torsion or what's a blend of extension and side bend

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and

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rotation and then on the way through it wants to do the same. So we're going to

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do

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this blend of extension side bend rotation and it just gives this look of

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making a swing where my head stays pretty still. The old classic you know

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keep your head still keeps us in line with a golf ball and helps a lot with

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low point so consistency of contact. So a lot of golfers struggle with low

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point

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control and consistency of contact from having not enough extension on the way

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through. We're basically staying flexed like this where their upper body is a

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little bit rounded often accompanied more by or almost always accompanied by

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more

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of a arm extension kind of like this. Like if I was to throw my arms out in

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front of me I would tend to round my shoulders instead of getting that kind

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of awkward chest pass feel where I'm extending as I'm straightening my arms.

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So if I was to get more of that extension while straightening my arms it helps

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control the depth of the divot so the club doesn't get too deep and that allows

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me to be a little bit more on top of it. Classically a golfer who tends to stay

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a little bit more bent over and release more from the arms will be a little bit

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more behind kind of like this and what you'll see is during the release you'll

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tend to see this little chase move where the head actually drifts towards the

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target early in the follow-through. If you look at a lot of really good ball

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strikers from impact until the arm is passed parallel kind of up in here the

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head will basically stay more less in line. That's a sign that they're going

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into

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more of this torsion or this extension move as they're rotating through. Now

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the purpose of this video is the connection side is it's really hard to do

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that move if you are too far behind so getting too far behind at the top of

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swing or into transition is almost going to guarantee that you need to have

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more

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of that throw move but it's like it's kind of like one of those systems where

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the more that you're behind and you throw the more that you're going to

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lunge forward and in order to break that pattern you have to do both. You have

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to

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feel less of a throw in extension which means I'm going to have to feel more of

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almost like a reverse pivot or feeling like my upper body stays a little bit

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more in line with the golf ball. Now that's typically low point control with an

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iron with the driver I like to see the upper body a little bit more behind but

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going into that extension isn't a problem because we're trying to have the

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bottom of the swing before the golf ball instead of after it. So if you are

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struggling with one end of the spectrum if you are either struggling with upper

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body staying flexed either kind of a baseball pivot where it's kind of back

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here or just a little bit more of kind of a buckle where this comes down then

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trying to get some extension of the legs and hips while being forward is a good

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goal but you also need to monitor where you are at the top of the swing. If

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you're if you're coming out of more that I'll call it the baseball pattern but

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where your upper body is way back and then it's moving way forward so there's

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just a lot of upper body translation. It's going to feel like you are in front

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of

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the golf ball by a lot and then it's going to feel like you are pulling away

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from it by a lot or standing up is probably what it's going to feel like

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going into back bend like I teach in the extend turn tilt to help you feel this

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follow-through finish position. So we'll take a look at how those two look here

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as we go through a demo but if you're working on area and it's just not quite

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clicking there's usually a complimentary piece that's what these connection

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drills

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or help or concept videos are hopefully designed to help you see. Okay so the

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classic pattern would be a little bit more of a shift off the ball and then

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kind of a shift through and you'll see I hit that ball pretty well but it kind

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of

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felt very armsy. It felt weak in terms of overall power and it felt like it was

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on the verge of hooking but it worked out it was a pretty good shot. Okay now

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we're going to do the opposite pattern where I'm going to feel like I get a

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little bit more stacked and then I'm going to feel like I go into more

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extension on the way through. Now I still had a little bit of that arm throw

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because I was coming out of that pattern so the ball went a tiny bit to

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the right but it felt more stable it felt more centered. So let's try that

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again so we're going to feel like we get a little bit more centered in the

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backswing. So that strike was pretty nice there when carrying it just a little

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bit to the right but felt like I was well ahead of it felt like low point was

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nice and in front of the golf ball and I was shallow and it felt like by

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extending there was no way I was going to get severely deep so I could

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encourage what I like to consider covering the ball or being a little bit

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more on top of it. I think those are a couple traits of really good consistent

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ball strikers. There we go.

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Swing there.